Hans Skopowny

Hans Skopovny – ruler of Samogitia in 1567.

Biography

Hans was the son of Stanislav Skop and Princess Helena Andreevna Sangushko. Stanislav Skop was in 1527-1529 a Royal secretary and Skirsnemunė and Tendziagilski ruler. Stanislav Skop was the grandson of Skop from the old princely dynasty of Dausprungas.
For Princess Helena Andreevna Sangushko this was the second marriage. Her first husband was Prince Peter Timofeevich Massalsky. The parents of Princess Helena Andreevna were Prince Andrei Alexandrovich Sangushko, CoA Pogon and Princess Ksenia-Maria Ivanovna Ostrozhskaya.
The daughter of Hans was Anna Skopovna, who together with her husband Boleslaw Dubikowski, was a Smolensk's Deputy Cup-bearers in the mid-1600s.They owned estate Kovalev in Minsk district.